Thread: probability problem

The arrival of trucks on a receiving dock is a Poisson process with a mean arrival rate of two per hour.
(a) Find the probability that exactly 6 trucks arrive in a two-hour period.
(b) Find the probability that the time between two successive arrivals will be more than 3 hours.


Please help me in solving the above problem!!!!

Thanks!!

Poisson Probabilities are a matter of plugging into the formula.


n = 6/2 hours = 3 per hour

Calculate it. Let's see what you get.

For the second, Poisson Wait Times are Exponential. Let's see what you get.

I have a nearly identical question to this, for part (b) since the inter-arrival times are exponentially distributed would it be:

for your rate, then you would have:

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